Westworld Season 3 Episode 6 recap

With just three episodes left in Westworld Season 3, two of the show’s most iconic characters, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve (Thandie Newton) finally reunite.

At the beginning of the season, Maeve was brought in by the mysterious Serac (Vincent Cassell) to stop Dolores from carrying out her plan to end humanity.

Additionally, The Man in Black (Ed Harris) also returns, and he’s been committed to an institution of some sort.

The episode begins with a flashback of Maeve walking through a field with her daughter in the sunlight, which she snaps out of when standing in an open field.

Serac appears, saying that human memory isn’t perfect, with Serac telling her she has no past, only present.

Serac tries to give her an ‘incentive’ to stop Dolores, but Maeve says she wants what Dolores has, ‘help.’

Serac says he can give her what she wants, but if she fails her future won’t be so certain as he walks away.

She wakes up inside the World War II building on the Nazi Germany ‘set’ of Westworld as she tucks a gun into her dress.

She tells the soldiers that she’s the one they want, as she commands them all to lower their weapons and they comply. 

She then says, ‘Now then, let’s have a little fun’ as she starts taking out the soldiers one by one before the title sequence begins. 

The episode continues inside an institution as one man says he feels like, ‘a ghost among the living’ among other patients. 

The Man in Black speaks up and scoffs at his notion of ‘God’s plan,’ asking if he believes in Santa Claus too.

When the leader asks to share his thoughts, he says that humanity is hurtling through the void and if there is a God, he would have given up on us long ago.

‘We consume and excrete, loot and destroy, and we sit here on a pile of ashes, squeezing all value from it and ask why are we here?’ he says.

He says that they’re all in service of chaos, ‘maggots eating a corpse,’ which causes one woman to cry.

The Man in Black, a.k.a. William, takes off a glove revealing two fingers are gone, as the woman asks about the death of his daughter.

‘You’re the only one who holds the key to your experiences,’ she adds.

William tells her he shouldn’t be there but she says he has something in his brain they need to explore.

She goes to a computer saying William has been assigned to AR therapy, but William insists he doesn’t need therapy to confront the truth.

He says he didn’t mean for it to happen but he got confused because he was playing the game for so long.

He adds that he doesn’t belong here, and he belongs in a pine box, but he’s interrupted when the doctor starts crying.

She gets a text from her husband Alex who says he’s taking the kids and leaving as she runs out of the room crying.

William is then strapped into a table where he gets a blood sample taken, as it’s sent through a tube system to a lab. 

The analysis says an ‘unknown protein’ is detected. 

He’s then seen being lead down a hallway by two men in black, as he sees his doctor step off her desk, hanging herself.

A graphic reveals that a ‘divergence’ is taking place in San Francisco, as we see an overhead shot of the city.

Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) is seen walking her son down the street as they return to their home, where Jake is waiting as he watches a report about the Incite data leak.

Charlotte says he needs to watch her today because she has to get to work but he says that the whole world is ‘spun out’ right now.

She says she’s scared, but Jake says that’s not the woman she knows, she’s ‘fearless.’

She asks if he read his profile, and he says he wanted to know what happens with us, but he admits that he never read it.

‘I don’t know what the future holds for us, but I know it’s not up for a machine to decide, it’s our choice,’ Jake adds while hugging her. 

The preview that aired after last week’s episode, Genre, began with Dolores sitting in a room with Maeve.

There are also flashbacks to Maeve’s past, with her ‘daughter,’ who she’s been trying to reunite with all season. 

There is also a brief shot of Charlotte Hale retrieving something from a small wall safe as well.

Fans had known all season that Charlotte wasn’t really herself, since she was killed by a host replica in the Season 2 finale, who then stepped in to replace her.

However, for the first half of the season, fans didn’t know which host personality was taking over Charlotte’s body.

It was ultimately revealed that the five host cores that Dolores managed to escape from Westworld with were in fact copies 

The trailer also shows Maeve telling Dolores that it isn’t right for, ‘one person to have all that power,’ while Dolores points out the irony of her statement.

‘Says the woman who can control us with her mind,’ Dolores retorts, as she’s seen walking out in the World War II battlefield.

We also get a glimpse at The Man in Black (Ed Harris), who has swapped his black attire for an all white look as he’s put inside what appears to be a mental institution.

He’s seen being strapped into a chair, and in white shot, he even tries to bite the hand of one of the institution’s employees.

Charlotte is also seen hugging Jake (Michael Ealy) while her son watches, while Serac is seen pointing a gun at Caleb.

Westworld Season 3 continues with the penultimate episode, Passed Pawn, on Sunday, April 26 at 9 PM ET, followed by the finale, Crisis Theory, on Sunday, May 2 at 9 PM ET on HBO.